An Abuja court has sentenced a staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Quadri Ismail Adeyinka, to seven years imprisonment for defrauding a Nigerian over international passport.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), had arraigned the convict before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, Abuja on a four-counts charge bordering on gratification, conferment of corrupt advantage and cheating contrary to extant provisions of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and the Penal Code Act.
Counsel to the ICPC, Dr. Osuobeni Ekoi Akponimisingha had, in the course of the trial, led evidence before the court on how Adeyinka defrauded one Ovie Justice Ojeffia under the pretence of regularizing his international passport.
Adeyinka was said to have received the sum of N100,000.00 from Ojeffia to regularise the said passport but reneged.
The victim thereafter petitioned against the offer to the ICPC, which took the matter up.
After the investigation, the Commission arraignment the convict before the court.
In his judgement, Justice Onwuegbuzie found Adeyinka guilty on all four counts charge and sentenced him to seven years each for counts one and two, five years for count four and two years for count three. The sentences are to run concurrently.
